Titled "One Giant Festival By The Numbers," the supersized infographic offers a series of metrics that speak to Summerfest's status as the world's largest music festival. | May 15, 2014»Read Full Article

Planets align. Stars emerge. And in between, a house becomes home, if only temporarily.

That's what happened to create Casa di Opera, a house that was renovated so that young members of the Florentine Opera would have a place to hang their sheet music during the roughly nine months they were in Milwaukee. | May 15, 2014»Read Full Article(1)

Anyone walking past the window at Riviera Maya on a recent Sunday afternoon would have looked twice. Inside, 25 smock-wearing customers wielded paintbrushes. Easels were set up where chip baskets are usually in place.

Artist-instructor Jamie Peschke stood at the front of the room directing the painters step by step in the creation of a picture called "Calla Lily." | May 15, 2014»Read Full Article

It wasn't all that narratively literal beforehand, and this, I thought, was just another ambiguity, in the tradition of David Lynch, whose "Lost Highway" and "Mulholland Dr." make U-turns in the middle and turn into something else. Even seeing it a second time as intended offered no a-ha moment — or more, accurately, posed a different set of questions. | May 15, 2014»Read Full Article

The latest documentary on America's nutrition crisis, "Fed Up" often feels like a dish we've been served before. Still, it is effective at zeroing in on Dietary Enemy No. 1 — sugar — and the food industry's unrelenting work to redirect the nation's efforts away from the problem. | May 15, 2014»Read Full Article(2)

I'm just saying that, like any lumbering beast, it takes a while to pick up speed. And when it finally puts its scaly foot down, it compensates for the puny generic prelude. | May 15, 2014»Read Full Article(4)

Smack in the middle of the superhero summer comes a chai-flavored tale of emotional growth and personal redemption that is part "Slumdog Millionaire," part "Jerry Maguire," and straight out of the "Cool Runnings" school of unlikely sports stories. | May 15, 2014»Read Full Article